An early look at the @GWOTMF memorial planned for Washington, D.C, released today.

It's planned on what are now athletic fields at the corner of Henry Bacon Drive and Constitution Avenue, near the Lincoln Memorial and Vietnam Veterans Memorial. pic.twitter.com/T3nxQVSRG1

— Dan Lamothe (@DanLamothe) June 10, 2026

I personally think they should have gone with a pit, an eternal flame at the bottom, and someone symbolically pouring cash down it.

You spent time at A&M, you know how cynical the average Aggie can be.

If I recall people said mean things about the Bonfire Memorial though to me it is epically well done.

Now, a true cynic would have a tent with free military toy replicas that they give away to anyone wearing a keffiyeh..

Stick with me here, I'm going way out on a limb, but I'm going to guess the democrats won't be happy with it.

It's not awful as far as concepts go, though a little more abstract than I'd personally like. I also wonder how it'll look if the greenery on the structure isn't green.

I hope that pond is gonna be rhino lined from the get-go

When I first looked at that, I thought you were talking about Game of Thrones. Read it too fast.

Hope that is synthetic like wood. Gonna fall down in like 15 years......Dumb looking ***** I don't think anything related to war should be post modern or whatever the term may be for something that says nothing except whatever your ****ed up state of mind tells you at the time.
Tell it to us straight, hold up heads of the defeated, make a damn Trajan's column of the acts of war and the defeated.....and the loot.

Why is it that the weak have even taken over the memorials to the strong?

I don't want any money spent building anything in DC ever again. It's a forever cesspool. When the Dems get back into office, they will **** all over it, just like they do everything else.

This is seriously a vile post. Reconsider.

Why does it look like an Islamic crescent moon?

redcrayon said:

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This is seriously a vile post. Reconsider.

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I've lost multiple friends, and spent too much time there to count…I have a deeply cynical opinion.

Sue me.

Is that the taliban entry or the IRGC?

Seriously, I won't ever visit that monstrosity; The designer should be made to eat omelet MREs for a year.

Logos Stick said:

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I don't want any money spent building anything in DC ever again.

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Anything that'll freak out the Left is a public service

CW Griswold said:

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I'm tired of modernist architecture dominating things like this. It seems we're incapable of building something that holds to the best aesthetics of Western Civilization.

In the grand scheme of things memorials such as the Lincoln Memorial and Jefferson Memorial weren't built that long ago, but they are beautiful and timeless.

Oh well.

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I'm with you

that sucks and I hate it

it looks like a bunch of logs and grass

the Air Force Memorial is "modern" as well but still cool